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Postpartum Depression with Comorbid Anxiety: Optimizing Treatment

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

Notably, a 12-week clinical trial from Misri and colleagues evaluated paroxetine monotherapy and paroxetine combined with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in women with postpartum depression and comorbid anxiety symptoms. for combination therapy). 2016 Aug;6(4):269-76. for paroxetine alone and 78.9%

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Silent Struggles: Gendered Pressures on Male Lawyers Contribute to Depression

Lawyers with Depression

According to the 2016 study by the American Bar Association (ABA) and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: 28% of lawyers reported depression. For example: Solution-focused therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can appeal to men who want actionable strategies and tangible goals. 19% had anxiety.

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Integrating Redemption in Psychiatry, Part 3: A Nod to the Late Brian Wilson

Psychiatric Times

Colleagues who responded to my redemption query mentioned how redemption seems present without saying directly so in the work of the psychiatrist and concentration camp survivor Victor Frankl, 4 in the developing intervention of religion-adapted cognitive behavior therapy, 5 in forgiveness literature, in human flourishing, and compassion.

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Brain Disorders or Problems with Living? How Research on “Mental Illness” Went Awry

Mad in America

And a systematic review found that, for patients who had already been hospitalized for a previous suicide attempt, a short course of cognitive behavioral therapy cut the risk of subsequent suicide attempts in half. Surprisingly, effective psychotherapy need not cost more than drug therapy.

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These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse.

Mad in America

A cognitive-behavioral-therapy program for teens had similarly disappointing results—it proved no better than regular classwork. From 2007 to 2016, pediatric emergency-room visits for mental-health disorders rose 60 percent.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

A 2022 large study , lead-authored by Marc Stone at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, examined 232 drug-company trials on antidepressants submitted to the FDA between 1979 and 2016.

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Back-to-School Support & Teen Mental Health Treatment: Practical Tips for Parents

Clear Behavioral Health

A wave of studies published after the 2016 and 2020 elections found increases in election-related stress and anxiety [2]. Teens today also have little reprieve from the constant stimulation of media. Constant media stimulation exposes teens to stressors such as the presidential election in the United States.